…..this made my heart as fluffy and bushy and and and warm as a raccoons tail X)

I have fear of crowds (if that’s a thing), too, and I really don’t feel what you feel. I’m a guy, and I would totally do the same as Lily, even if all I had with me was a male friend. That, or run away.

@ Blitzkrieg1701:
I myself don’t mind a few crowds, but when you see all this carnage caused by Black Friday, people getting trampled to death, multiple injuries, it makes me nervous. Who actually thought that was a good idea?

@ Someone:
Well…I guess most people do find crowds scary…I’m a timid person…my sister isn’t and it’s amazing what a little support can do…she will just lead me through places I fear and…poof! It all goes away…so it depends on you and the person you’re with…

Very good strip.
Hope Powree reconsiders and stays on. ^_^
How the heck did Sandra talk Richard into this? “Would you mind driving me and Woo and Woo’s girlfriend (who normally wouldn’t go near you and that’s just as well because she’s not vaccinated) to an Event? How do I know about this? Ummm… you’re better off not asking because if you did, I’d have to tell you Woo can talk.”

First panel: “Have fun”
Before second panel: “Oh, I wasn’t talking to anyone, Dad. They should be back in a few hours. Here, I brought Sudoku.”

Go behind the enemy line and eat their cookies? Actually that’s a brilliant strategy. Imagine World War 2 when nazi are too busy attacking both fronts and some soldiers from Allies was sent to sneak in and steal hitler’s cookies.

Also, what this event will be called then? Butterstock? Buttstock? Coonstock?

I myself don’t mind a few crowds, but when you see all this carnage caused by Black Friday, people getting trampled to death, multiple injuries, it makes me nervous. Who actually thought that was a good idea?

Probably an economist. They’re all sociopaths. (Except for the ones who visit this site and see this comment.)

Courtesy of swotting up on Wikipedia, The Four Horsemen first show up in Revelation Ch. 6 and are only described as riding on white, red, black and pale (or green/greenish yellow) horses; generally regarded as symbolising Conquest (“rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest”), War (“its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other”), Famine (carries a pair of scales and indicates grain prices ten times higher than normal) and Death (“Its rider was named Death, and Hell was following close behind him”) respectively. Together, “they were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine, plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”

Let’s just ignore the fact that at the height of the British Empire, we owned a quarter of the planet’s land area… 😀

@ mittfh:
“In an 1865 speech in Oakland, California, Rev. W. B. Brown of New Jersey quipped that the reason the sun never set upon the Empire was that God did not trust the British in the dark. The quip has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln,among others.
According to Richard Lederer’s mock history of the world assembled from errors found in student-written papers, ‘t]he sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire was in the east and the sun sets in the west’.-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_empire_on_which_the_sun_never_sets#Satirical_references

How the heck did Sandra talk Richard into this? “Would you mind driving me and Woo and Woo’s girlfriend (who normally wouldn’t go near you and that’s just as well because she’s not vaccinated) to an Event? How do I know about this? Ummm… you’re better off not asking because if you did, I’d have to tell you Woo can talk.”

How about this version:
“Hey dad, I found this great place not too far away! I’d like to check it out, enjoy the nature and the views. Maybe hike a little. How about it?

Oh, and can Woo and his girlfriend come along as well? I’m sure they’d like a little a little variety, something a bit different to their usual daily life. You know how curious raccoons are.”

Most parents would probably jump at the first one, seeing their kid wanting to spend some time outside by choice. We know that he encourages such behaviour. And given that he has already driven both raccoons in his car (and in far harsher conditions), he probably wouldn’t mind the latter as well.

And a kid telling its pet to have fun is hardly anything out of the ordinary.

Poor Lily. I knew she had a problem with humans, but large crowds? “What if we get separated?” Well, don’t you technically get separated every day, since Woo lives with humans and you don’t? I’m sure you two will find each other the same way you find each other any other time! If not, then you will know something must be wrong, you will know where to look just to be sure, and problem solved! If something IS wrong, then it’s only half solved, unless it’s a really really big problem because then it would only be a third solved, or perhaps a quarter? An eighth? But maybe it’s a really small problem and finding out there is a problem at all is actually three-quarters of the job, and then it’s three-quarters solved!
Gosh dangit, I rambled while trying to be comforting again. 😛

Don’t worry, Lily, I’ve been in crowds countless times, and I’ve even done it on my own, and even one time when I went to an air show with my own GF and we got stuck in the rain and the surprisingly strong wind during the show, which had to be delayed as a result, and we had to book it to the nearest hangar (holding on to my umbrella as well which I think actually bent wrong at some point due to the strong winds) and hide inside where it was PACKED with people just so we could stay dry, and we happened to stick with the rest of my family the whole time we were packed in there, and eventually even managed to squeeze our way out and get to our car until the rain stopped! You’ll be fine, just don’t worry about it. Woo’s there for ya, and if something happens, Sandra and Woo’s other friends can help. 😉

@ fots:
Okay…
By the looks of things she’s either hopping out the front right door or it’s a “suicide” door (hinge at the back) at the back left of the car… here in Australia either of those options are passenger doors.

hmm its not even 350 racoons lets calculate my TV (yes my tv Im using xbox`s app internet explorer) is 32 inches long but the strip (contain the coons) is 15 and a half long by 11 and a half. but we must look at the box spot containg the acctual coons… it is 5 inches by3 and a half and 5X3 1/2= 16 1/2 and each cubic inch of coon is 14 coons sooo 16 1/2X14=336-extra space between the group+the coons that stragled out of the equation due to over numbering the area with extra space resulting in a good ESTIMATE of 320… oops I forgot to add woo and his gf so 322. powree you cheated! by the way if the math is SOMEHOW wrong just remember im only